Example sentences of "think i [modal v] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you think I might come in for a few minutes and talk to you about Matilda ? ’ |
| 2 | They ca n't even serve you a drink in a clean glass : I do n't think I 'll come here again . |
| 3 | God , do you think I 'd come near you , talk to you about it , touch you , if I did n't know for a certainty that you want me as badly as I do you ? ’ |
| 4 | Do you think I 'd come home with packets of biscuits for you ? |
| 5 | Do you think I will come on last ? |
| 6 | Erm a less introverted erm er response would be , half way through the preparations to say , well you know actually I 'm , I do n't really think I can come . |
| 7 | Yes , but erm , but Chairman , er , I do n't think I should come up and make myself clear , some local papers were not represented there . |
| 8 | " Do you think I could come and stay with you ? |
| 9 | and he 's been and gorrit , he 's took his half and it 's going , i cos I thought I 'll come to your house and tell you in front |
| 10 | When I gatecrashed your life I suppose you thought I might come in useful as some kind of antidote — but it did n't work . ’ |
| 11 | Having taught English Literature for a long time in universities , on both sides of the Atlantic , and having spent some years pondering the questions raised in this book , I have come to some very tentative conclusions about what might be done ; they are not , I might add , of the kind I thought I would come to when I began working on it . |
| 12 | I was startled for a moment , as one does not have ex-Prime Ministers calling on one every day , but this was very like S.B. , who began , ‘ You will never come to see me , so I thought I would come to see you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ So I thought I would come round a little early , in case you needed advice . |
| 14 | ‘ You all look so attractive I thought I would come in and say hello . |
| 15 | She was quiet and calm , and did n't talk much ( I was supposed to do the talking ) and she said she thought I should come every week , and told me how much it would cost . |
| 16 | I was floating overhead — I was n't visible to the daleks and I thought I should come down and see what the Awful Warning was . |
| 17 | With a feeling of having been unexpectedly let out of school , I drove over the hills on the road to Reading and coasted along the unfenced part of the Quillersedge Estate until I thought I 'd come more or less to where Gareth had dropped the paint : parked off the road there and searched more closely for the place on foot . |
| 18 | ‘ I thought I 'd come along and lend a hand , ’ he smiled at Maggie . |
| 19 | I thought I 'd come and see you tomorrow , if that suits you . ’ |
| 20 | But I thought I 'd come round first , to help you open up and get things straight . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I thought I 'd come and stay here for a bit . |
| 22 | I just thought I 'd come up and speak to you about that . |
| 23 | Well , I daresay you thought I 'd come unstuck , when the new airport was n't built . |
| 24 | Anyway , I thought I 'd come back and be with you for the evening in case you were lonely . ’ |
| 25 | I thought I 'd come and , you know , see you . |
| 26 | I was starving so I thought I 'd come down to the kitchen . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I 'd come round with you , Sir Bryan , ’ Richie said . |
| 28 | There was no sign of Cawthorne and I thought I 'd come too far . |
| 29 | ‘ No — it 's just Christmas — a family get-together , you know — it seems to take more out of me than it used to — so I thought I 'd come and have a quiet minute or two with you . |
| 30 | seven o'clock , well I thought I 'd come a bit earlier forget that they want a tidy living room , they want to get the toys out of the way , they want to present themselves in the best possible light so they 'd be more forgiving if you 're late than if you 're too early to be on time . |